Delta_V
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- Comment on It helps to set your preferred age range from 18-110 for full coverage 3 weeks ago:
isn’t that the code that lets you both play as the same character in Street Fighter?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
If you’re baking something that needs exact amounts of certain ingredients, then yeah, a scale is easier. A scale is more accurate, but its slower than using a measured scoop for recipes that don’t require more precision than the scoop provides.
You don’t actually need the full set. If all you have is 1 teaspoon and 1 cup, it will usually be OK to just eyeball the fractions.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Its not any random spoon or cup.
measuring spoons:
www.amazon.com/…/B0888TC1S7measuring cups:
www.amazon.com/…/B00L9X2CWQ - Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
The things people drink out of are many different sizes of course, but when the word “cup” is used in the context of a measure of volume, then yes, they’re called “measuring cups”, and the volume is standardized.
Same thing with teaspoons and tablespoons. They’re not just any random spoon - when talking about measurements, they have a standardized volume and you need to use a cheap and ubiquitous measuring device if you want to follow a recipe precisely.
Most people in USA do not have a scale in their kitchen, but we do have a measuring cup and a set of measuring spoons.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 5 weeks ago:
enemy spy does enemy spy things and ends up in enemy mafia-owned gas station
oh no!
- Comment on i have a proposal 5 weeks ago:
Why does the working class, the larger of the two classes, not simply eat the smaller one?
- Comment on Need tips for my beard trimming routine. This is what I currently do! Any pointers? 5 weeks ago:
step 1: it puts the lotion on its skin
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
heroin dealers too, aka the pharmaceutical industry
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
Yeah, there’s no good way to shut down the production of alcohol. All you need to make it is water, air (wild, airborne yeast), and food (sugar) and if you don’t have one of those things then you have bigger problems than prohibition laws.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
he lost the plot after getting dumped by Grimes
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- Comment on Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says 3 months ago:
Also, nobody wants to hire anymore.
If employers get to say it when they can’t fill poverty wage positions, the rest of us get to say it when employers fail to offer 7 figure salaries.
- Comment on Damn freeloaders takin' all the jobs! 3 months ago:
There are different groups of people that respond to different sides of that message, and the people who broadcast either or both sides have differing motives as well. Countering it effectively requires understanding the problem.
The anti-welfare shtick comes from the political donor class - the capitalists, ie billionaires. Lack of a safety net gives them more leverage to negotiate lower wages within the businesses they own, and less government spending results in lower interest rates on the loans they use to grow their industries. The narrative is often framed as concerns over sharing limited resources, but the true motive is the elimination of the safety net - if enough of the working class can be convinced that the system isn’t fair, that creates casus belli to delete the system.
The other side of the argument is about supply and demand of labor as a commodity. As supply goes up, the price goes down, resulting in lower wages. Its a fundamental weakness of unregulated markets operating in the context of uneven global development. Immigrants from the poorer parts of the world can accept below market rate salaries and still come out ahead, but they drive down wages of the local economy in the process. A “free” market gives the capitalists, ie billionaires, power akin to the divine right of kings - with enough capital, they can game the market to suppress competition, establish monopolies, and perpetually remain in positions of ultimate executive authority. Therefore, regulating the market to make it truly free isn’t in their interest, so instead the propaganda organs they own - CNN, Fox ‘News’, etc… - blame the immigrants for perusing rational self-interest as if it were a moral failing, instilling hatred in part of the working class toward other working class people to garner political support for representatives who pay lip service to anti-immigration policy. Such policy isn’t actually passed because it would result in better wages, but the lip service wins elections in some states while also preventing the conversation from shifting to possible regulation to solve the problem of low wages.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
so don’t track login sessions, etc.
no cookies, no problem with not having asked for cookie consent.
if the site breaks, it breaks, and leaving it broken is a choice users can make.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
I’m able to connect to and use cnn.com from Berlin using Firefox with uBlock and NoScript.
Still kinda funny that they’d ask you to lower your defenses in order to “protect” you.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
What region are you trying to access it from?
- Comment on Counterspell this 3 months ago: